Top 500 Erin Morgenstern Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.”

— Erin Morgenstern

52. “You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul.”

— Erin Morgenstern

53. “Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.”

— Erin Morgenstern

54. “The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.”

— Erin Morgenstern

55. “It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.”

— Erin Morgenstern

56. “I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn’t you want to keep it?”

— Erin Morgenstern

57. “La gente ve lo que quiere ver. Y, en muchos casos, lo que le dicen que ha de ver.”

— Erin Morgenstern

58. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong being a dreamer.”

— Erin Morgenstern

59. “Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.”

— Erin Morgenstern

60. “The circus arrives without warning.”

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61. “This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.”

— Erin Morgenstern

62. “A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.”

— Erin Morgenstern

63. “So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.”

— Erin Morgenstern

64. “Be brave,” she says. “Be bold. Be loud. Never change for anyone but yourself. Any soul worth their star-stuff will take the whole package as is and however it grows. Don’t waste your time on anyone who doesn’t believe you when you tell them how you feel. On that Tuesday in September when you think you have no one to talk to you call me, okay? I’ll be waiting by the phone. And drive the speed limit around Buffalo.”

— Erin Morgenstern

65. “It is easier to be in love in a room with closed doors. To have the whole world in one room. One person. The universe condensed and intensified and burning, bright and alive and electric.”

— Erin Morgenstern

66. “It’s a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.”

— Erin Morgenstern

67. “Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is the most marvelous kind of trouble to get in.”

— Erin Morgenstern

68. “I didn’t know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.”

— Erin Morgenstern

69. “You are words on paper... Be careful what stories you tell yourself.”

— Erin Morgenstern

70. “Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.”

— Erin Morgenstern

71. “Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.”

— Erin Morgenstern

72. “What’s the difference between a door and a cage? Between not yet and too late?”

— Erin Morgenstern

73. “I think the best stories feel like they’re still going, somewhere, out in story space. I remember wondering if this story was an analogy about people who stay in places or relationships or whatever situations longer than they should because they’re afraid of letting go or moving on or the unknown, or how people hold on to things because they miss what the thing was even if that isn’t what that same thing is now.”

— Erin Morgenstern

74. “Everyone is a part of a story, what they want is to be part of something worth recording.”

— Erin Morgenstern

75. “It’s as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.”

— Erin Morgenstern

76. “Magic. This is not Magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it. Look around you- no one has even an inkling of the things that are possible in this world, and what’s worse is that none of them would listen if you attempted to enlighten them. They want to believe that magic is nothing but clever deception, because to think it real would keep them up at night, afraid of their own existence.”

— Erin Morgenstern

77. “Don’t waste your time on anyone who doesn’t believe you when you tell them how you feel.”

— Erin Morgenstern

78. “Whatever happens will happen whether I worry about it or not.”

— Erin Morgenstern

79. “Be brave,” she says. “Be bold. Be loud. Never change for anyone but yourself. Any soul worth their star-stuff will take the whole package as is and however it grows. Don’t waste your time on anyone who doesn’t believe you when you tell them how you feel.”

— Erin Morgenstern

80. “He doesn’t always wish that real life were more like video games, but in certain situations it would be helpful. Go here. Talk to this person. Feel like you’re making progress even though you don’t know what it is you’re trying to do, exactly.”

— Erin Morgenstern

81. “Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.”

— Erin Morgenstern

82. “Because everything requires energy, we must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”

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83. “El futuro nunca esta escrito en piedra.”

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84. “You could have been a ballerina,” Mme. Padva remarks to Celia. “You are quite good on your feet.” “I am good off my feet as well,” Celia says, and Mr. Barris nearly knocks over his own glass while Mme. Padva cackles.”

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85. “People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”

— Erin Morgenstern

86. “The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.”

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87. “I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.”

— Erin Morgenstern

88. “I’m an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.”

— Erin Morgenstern

89. “Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.”

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90. “The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.”

— Erin Morgenstern

91. “And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister’s story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.”

— Erin Morgenstern

92. “And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.”

— Erin Morgenstern

93. “But you built me dreams instead.”

— Erin Morgenstern

94. “I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly.”

— Erin Morgenstern

95. “People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.”

— Erin Morgenstern

96. “Timing is a sensitive thing.”

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97. “I couldn’t tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.”

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98. “I think that’s a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.”

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99. “He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,” Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.”

— Erin Morgenstern

100. “You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.”

— Erin Morgenstern